Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:20:55 PM EST Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 1/22/22, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > Greetings all ff experts;
> >
> > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering
> > that dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever
> > retention of bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a
> > timeout that is quicker than it is useful. Looking at bookmarks, and
> > its been about a month since I logged in to move a few sheckels
> > around, I needed to do that again, and find that bookmark and login
> > have been expired out of access if not out of the machine. Obviously
> > that, being my banking, has never been written down. I have
> > foolishly depended on my browser to remember all that.
>
> Ah, haaa. I noticed it twice in last two days while tracking down a
> crochet pattern for my dog's sweater. Those links were only two or
> three days old. For me, it's about URLs disappearing out of websurfing
> history, not CTRL+D bookmarking.
>
> Not sure exactly when it started doing this, maybe last week;ish. I
> log out of user and alternately shut down completely while Firefox is
> still in use. I figured that suddenly was an issue when it hadn't been
> in a very long time.
>
> Seems like this happened one other time in last couple years. It just
> sort of eventually corrected itself, i.e. Developers changed something
> that reversed the effect, THANK YOU!.
>
> Good to know.. it's not just me. If I trip over anything about it,
> I'll chat it up. Mine's 98 Nightly off the website.
>
> As an afterthought, I went into ~/.mozilla/firefox and poked around.
> I'm in a refreshed version because the ~13,000 tabs needed a break. So
> I'm in a different, smaller profile. I can't tell if any CTRL+D
> bookmarks are lost, BUT..
>
> When I'm in the firefox child directory, I'm seeing a 20MB file,
> places.sqlite.corrupt. The places.sqlite that apparently replaced it
> is only 10MB large. That's a lot of loss of something that occurred in
> the last couple weeks.
>
> When I right clicked to see if I could open places.sqlite and inspect
> the contents, Libreoffice tried to open it then reported back that it
> considers the 10MB file corrupt, too. Firefox appears to be able to
> read something out of that file because I haven't lost everything,
> anyway...
>
> One last observation is that I thought it was my imagination that the
> overall size of backup copies of ~/.mozilla/firefox kept lunging
> around in their size instead of consistently growing larger over time.
> It's apparently not imagination, now.
>
> Cindy :)
Thanks for backing me up Cindy. I found I did not own the .mozilla/
firefox directory but a recursive chown -R gene:gene * did not fix it.
No clue whats next.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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